LO To explore how historians find out about the past and decide why evidence is so important Starter In your books brainstorm ways in which we can find out about the past Doing History Using Evidence ID: 552920
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How do we find out about the past?
L/O – To explore how historians find out about the past and decide why evidence is so important
Starter – In your books, brainstorm ways in which we can find out about the pastSlide2
Doing History: Using Evidence
In history it is usually not possible to question witnesses to find out what happened like
detectives do.You cannot find any survivors from the battle of Hastings in 1066 to ask them why they thought that the Saxons lost.Instead, historians have to collect their information from various sources in order to find things out. The problem is that not all sources tell us what we want to know and it isn’t always clear what happened.Slide3
Doing History: Using Evidence
The sources of evidence that historians use can be divided into two main types, called primary
and secondary:Primary Sources – something that comes from the time that the historian is studyingSecondary Source – sources which do not come from the time that the historian is studying.Slide4
Primary and Secondary Sources
Are the following sources primary or
secondary?Canterbury Cathedral Britain since 1700 by R.J. Cootes (Oxford, 1999) Gladiator (film) Letters from Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton The text of a speech by Oliver Cromwell Weapons found at the site of the Battle of Hastings Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (a historical novel) The Times, 5th August 1914 (newspaper)Slide5
Analysing Sources
Who? Where? When? Why? How?Slide6
How do we find out about the past?
Now complete the worksheet
using the words below to help you.Extension tasks on sheet if you finish.Tools, Church Records, Ruins, Fragments, Autobiography, Newspapers, Church Records, Paintings, Pottery, Evidence, Documents, Letters, Photography, Diaries, Interviews, Memoirs, Television, School Textbooks, VideoSlide7
Homework
Visit www.bbc.co.uk/historyWrite
100-200 words on ‘Who were the Romans and what are they famous for?’Review the website and give it a mark out of 10. Is it useful as a historical source? Is it a primary or secondary source?Slide8
Plenary
What is a source?
What is a primary source?What is a secondary source?Why is it important that we analyse sources?Name 2 primary and 2 secondary sourcesDid we meet our learning objective?
L/O – To explore how historians find out about the past and decide why evidence is so important